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zurn··on P4: Open-Source Programming Language for Protocol-Independent Packet Processing
Does ebpf have a programming language? I've seen blog posts about writing ebpf programs with Zig, Rust, C++, C at least.
zurn··on Going Beyond Ada 2022
Ada and C++ are worlds apart, how is it possible to come so close as to be "just syntax" with static analyzers and their known limitations? Unless we are talking about all programming languages being "just syntax" for a turing machine...
zurn··on Replacements for existing software written in Rust
The safety issue or comparison against C/C++ was not mentioned in the submission. So I don't follow why the protest against replacements for Haskell programs, based on a safety argument.
zurn··on Replacements for existing software written in Rust
Are you implying that Rust is only / mostly used as a replacement for unsafe C/C++, and Rust programs should always be evaluated in the context of this choice?
zurn··on Elk OS – Audio Operating System
100% handled with N*2 would be hard realtime.
zurn··on My experience binding a couple of scripting engines with C++
Indeed, Python is one of the most well behaved scripting languages for WebAssembly, and people were running in browser for a good while already with WebAsembly predecessors (emscripten and asm.js).
zurn··on Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
Some laptops have this on the touchpad, with a printed grid of numpad keys there.
zurn··on Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
That linked survey didn't include their definition. But young children are one big group that comes to mind.
zurn··on Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
That percentage is of "consumers", might not include the entire population.
zurn··on Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
Smartphone penetration seems to be 40-80% in industrialized countries, according to 2019 figures from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_smartphon...
zurn··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
It's subjective, like in high end audio.
zurn··on Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?
By JS do you mean Node here?

Node has both blocking and async versions of a lot of IO operations. But async IO is more commonly used certainly. The real question might be whether a thread pool backed async IO implementation makes your program do concurrent IO better than a GIL + blocking IO calls that release the GIL, it's not obvious to me.

(Doesn't Node have threads too nowadays?)

zurn··on Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access
It's not immediately apparent what platforms this is for. In the releases there's at least Linux binaries available.
zurn··on WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
Most human interaction where videoconferencing applies happens in small groups.
zurn··on Gary Taubes: 'Obesity isn’t a calorie problem, it’s a hormone problem'
Also the glossy mag articles don't get written about the actors who fail or struggle with it. Or drop out of acting with long term weight/diet/eating disorder problems as a result. Survivor bias.
zurn··on Gary Taubes: 'Obesity isn’t a calorie problem, it’s a hormone problem'
Bodybuilders by definition are self-selected subset of people who can consistently apply high self discipline and dedicate a lot of energy and willpower on that. I think it's pretty safe to count them as outliers when looking at solutions to obesity in the general population.
zurn··on An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (2019) [pdf]
It's targeting small FPGAs, comparisons to full custom designs wouldn't be very fair.
zurn··on Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
It depends on the phone. Lots of problems with eg the COVID-19 exposure notification apps where firmware updates from Android OEMs were needed to whitelist the apps, the user accessible background settings weren't enough to keep them working.
zurn··on Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance
Pygame still has no GPU/3d API support. But it can leverage NumPy arrays IIRC so that's accelerated (compared to pure Python code at least).

At some point we'll have to migrate to new terms for "in hardware" for offloaded operations since we are no longer using fixed function hardware :)

zurn··on Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
HTTPS guarantees a higher level of security than "intranet", it works against on-path adversaries and provides end-to-end confidentiality & integrity & authenticity, plus provides forward security.
zurn··on Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service
If you look closer at the list, the difference in completed tertiary degrees (against many other countries too) comes from the youngest age bracket. It's probably because in the US people tend to have short university educations that they complete young and move more quickly to industry.
zurn··on Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?
Pretty gloomy view!

Taxing fossils yields revenue that has to be used for thngs like income transfers or breaking dependency on fossils to offset these steps back.

zurn··on Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?
There are 2 scenarios:

1. We drastically reduce fossils using regulation / legislation, in which case they become harder to get (eg more expensive) than the alternatives for most users.

2. We don't reduce fossils, in which case we're left with just trying to outcompete energy supply so nobody wants to pump the cheap oil and gas from the ground anymore.

Option 2 is never going to work and is equivalent to just giving up on fighting climate change.

zurn··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
> The same is true for most of the engineers at Mozilla. They could go to FAANGs and increase their compensation quite a bit.

What % of engineers at Mozilla are in SV and other places where Mozilla competes with FAANG? I thought quite a lot of the employees were remote all over the world.

zurn··on Data-Oriented Programming in Python
It's interesting that this execution speed optimization technique has adopted the name traditionally used in altogether other meanings (like the quote about a program's data structures being more important than the code, or how FP and programming with immutable values is actually data-first programing).
zurn··on WebRTC Samples
Depends a lot on what kind of app it is. There are orders of magnitude differences in requirements between apps that use data channels for relatively meager amounts of data (eg multiplayer games), or audio, or video, or video with server side realtime per participant transcoding etc.
zurn··on TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
Dutch or US export restrictions, or both?
zurn··on Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
Yep Delphi 1.0 was launched in the mid-90s and had a good run for some time after that.
zurn··on Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
Yep and on the dynamic side there were also Erlang, Python, Lua, Lisp, etc.
zurn··on EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
Does this require a Nvidia GPU? Some modules seem to import PyTorch and Cuda libs: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/blob/master/easyocr/dete...
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